What is the difference between Amitābha's Sukhāvatī & the Lotus Vault?
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What is the relation of sukhāvatī to 蓮華藏莊嚴世界海 ("the lotus's vault, the perfected lokadhātu, the ocean") attested to in the Buddhāvataṃsakanāmamahāyānasūtra T279 & Āryasaddharmapuṇḍarīkanāmamahāyānasūtra T262, wherein arahantaḥ, according to the Mahāyāna as attested to in aforementioned scriptures, perfect Buddhahood?
Context:
> Inquiry: in the Arhat's past lives the causes and conditions for being
> subject to embodiment necessarily ought to have been eradicated, in
> light of this they dwell where to perfect buddhahood?
>
> Response: when attaining arhatship, the three realms' myriad outflows'
> causes and conditions are exhausted, there is no more birth again in
> the three realms. There is a pure buddha land, beyond the three
> realms, where not even the word affliction has a name, in this kingdom
> of the Buddha, they hear the Dharma Flower Sūtra [i.e. the Lotus
> Sūtra], with this they perfect Buddhahood. As in the Dharma Flower
> Sūtra's words: "There are arhantaḥ, for example, who’ve not heard the
> Dharma Flower Sūtra,themselves they call 'ones who have attained
> cessation'; I in another realm for them speak this matter, that you
> all shall become samyaksaṁbuddhāḥ."
>
> (Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśaḥ T1509.714a9)
Furthermore, these pure lands, what relation do they have to ākaniṣṭaghanavyūha?
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Nov 22, 2018, 07:39 PM
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